Louisa Cann

Femaleabout 1853–

Brief Life History of Louisa

When Louisa Cann was born about 1853, in Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Loran D. Cann, was 47 and her mother, Mary Jane Goudey, was 45. She lived in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871.

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Family Time Line

Loran D. Cann
1807–1879
Mary Jane Goudey
1809–1900
Adelaide Murry Cann
1830–1920
Louisa Cann
about 1853–
Mary Elizabeth Cann
1832–1909
Elizabeth Mary Cann
1832–
Harriet Jane Cann
1834–1869
Loran D. Cann
1837–1868
Almira Flint Cann
1840–
Stayley Brown Cann
1843–1921
Miner Chipman Cann
1845–1900
Edward Bennett Cann
1847–1922

Sources (1)

  • Louiesa Cann in household of Loran Cann, "Canada Census, 1871"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (10)

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World Events (6)

1869

Age 16

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1871

Age 18

British Columbia joins the confederation.

1909 · First Canadian Flight

Age 56

The Silver Dart was the first recorded flight in Canada. It took off from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, on February 23, 1909, and was piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.

Name Meaning

English (Devon): habitational name from Cann, a place in Dorset, named from Old English canna ‘can, cup’, used in the transferred sense of a deep valley, or a topographic name from the same word used elsewhere in southwestern England. Alternatively, from Middle English canne ‘can, vessel’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name denoting a maker of vessels for holding liquids.

Irish: shortened form of McCann .

Americanized form of German Kann and Kahn .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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